DotA Utilities

As expected, Valve has confirmed that their action RTS title, DOTA 2 to be a Free to Play game. This news has overwhelmed the players and caused unrest between the competitors. Along with this announcement, Valve has also launched DOTA 2 in-game store (with micro-transactions of course) allowing players to purchase items to customize heroes, items etc.

All the Dota 2 items are strictly limited to cosmetic purpose only, they will not affect the gameplay in any way, unlike other MOBA genre games. There is no hero restriction, players are free to access any hero, you don't have to pay to unlock them. The Battle points system has been introduced. Each time you play and finish a matchmaking game, your Battle level/points increases and you're rewarded with free Dota 2 items.

Moreover, The Dota 2 Workshop has come in place. It lets the community members to contribute in Dota 2 by submitting new items (for e.g. cloaks, claws, swords, hats etc). Once your submission gets approved you'll earn a percentage of it's sales through your Steam wallet.

DOTA 2 SHOP

Question: How can I play DOTA 2?

Answer: The game is currently invitational only, However, You can apply for free Dota 2 Beta inviteby taking the Steam survey. Optionally, you can buy 39.99$ Early Access Bundle on Steam store which grants you a Dota 2 invite with numerous rare items.

@Dude who Said "Lol. Valve shamelessly stole the business model of League of Legends. Not gonna play this crap!"

You sir are clearly a LoL fanboy, Valve have this system already in place for TF2, a much older game than LoL. Also Valve aren't making you pay for any heroes and all the items are cosmetic, thus stopping people from buying their way to the top, so its nothing like the system in LoL.

Do some research before you start bashing a game thats far better than LoL.

free invite for key...maybe from any dota websites...if u are lucky, u will get one maybe more, 39 dollar is for dota invite(key) and bundle...I've check it already...bundle=more items, collections, etc something like that...not the game is 39 dollar, the bundles are

Just played a Dota 2 game, the graphics are so flashy as compared to HoN sometimes its very hard to distinguish between heroes. The Day/night cycle is weird, when its day its good and bright but when night comes you can barely see anything..I dont like the Dark theme of dota 2..

well steam is trying to make money..yes..but in a good way..they let us play all heroes in dota 2 for free but we just had to pay for skins and other stuffs(USELESS)..unlike LoL or HoN..we had to buy heroes and other stuffs..but who needs those damn skins anyway..only for "show offs"...there no such skins in original dota..so the main factor here is how you can own people with your HERO!..skills are required not skins!!!KEEP OWNING UNTIL YOU GET RAMPAGGEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

All of the people here that are saying that HoN or LoL is better can go back to your games and play them instead of arguing about a game like Dota 2 which is far superior. All the people that are asking why there are no download button, it is its beta phase and not released yet you can buy the key for 39.99 with many rare items. For all the people saying that it should by Blizzard... Blizzard never made it in the first place, Dota was made on Warcraft 3 by modders. By the way Blozzard is making a Dota game called Blizzard All-Stars which looks like crap honestly. Please read the article before you make stupid comments.

OK, I've read several of these replies, and I'll just be one among many, but I'll try to make some things clear regardless.

Buying the items in the store supports DotA2, DotA2 is essentially Valve. Valve as a game corporation will put more focus on DotA2, keeping it awesome, if people buy stuff. So don't be cheapskates, even if you don't think that new Axe skin is really necessary.

Early Access is already granted when you have a Beta-Key, it is not something you will have to buy.

Valve is known to use ideas from their past games when making new ones. Now they decided to make a shop, inspired by TeamFortress2, and also the other MOBA games.

To the guy who said valve stole LoL's buisness model. Dota was before LoL, and the model where you can buy cosmetic items has been around for a very long time. Also LoL game breaks by making it Pay to play. Dota2 Doesn't have that

dota was first!!! you guys playing HON or LoL didnt know that dota was the model and most superior.. they copied all shits from dota.. they just changed heroes names, combined the heroes. but same gameplay like dota..

Gather up guys I have something to tell y'all, DotA 2 is like DotA which HAS a better graphics only but ALSO has a better lag spikes in it. What I'm saying to Valve is they should make an application for DotA 2 named "DotA 2 Offline Client" which makes the people who likes no LAG SPIKES have a smooth gameplay not like right now where we play the beta key with our nearest server(SE Asia for me because I'm from Philippines) then still we get these f*cking 1000 ping, I know that is sh*t!!! Now lets get back to the words I'm sayin', see?! I know you looked so surprised because of my sh*tty ping. Explain to me why do I get this f*cking ping, because I don't have a good internet speed(5 mbps without anyone with me) or because of the game? I know that the game is still in beta but Valve don't care about fixing it AND I know that you are thinking that I am the only one who is talking about this issue but no, it's not, someone is also complaining about this and no one from the company saw this f*cking issue? If you want the game be popular to the world, you should prove it, Valve should prove it! Now let's skip about the DotA 2 bad issue, and go to the suggestion of the others. I see that many of DotA 2 players are complaining about the hero "cards" selection in-game is such gay, what I am saying again is it's like Yugi-Oh game that which makes the players transferred from DotA to DotA 2 laughing at it because of its concept. Well I laughed a bit about it because I should rush to find my favorite hero before the other people will choose it, now thank God for the hero search engine they made for faster navigation. My suggestion about it is return the style of DotA hero selection(the Normal- 6.74) where the heroes are arranged by their faction and classes but with more fashion in it. After the hero selections, the f*cking status bar! You forgot the f*cking status bar wher we put the f*cking status like "Auras"! Why the hell you should put it above the health bar and beside the picture frame the hero?!? And those irritating bars that slices the health bar of the hero? What is that? LoL style? That is why someone is always saying that " Is that LoL?", wtf?!? Well enough for the suggestions, those are the only thing I want to suggest. And last, about the f*cking histories of these f*cking games: HoN, LoL, DotA, and DotA 2... DotA- has been creted by Eul last 2003 based on the map "Aeon of Strife" from the game Starcraft, developed by Guinsoo and stopped at the map "6.01" and again developed by IceFrog until the latest map "6.74".LoL- has been created by Riot games and designed by Guinsoo last 2008 and have been released last 2009(see, DotA has been created BEFORE the sh*tty game LoL)HoN-has been created by S2 games last 2010(some informations from DotA have been shared, not copied, to this game by the ideas of IceFrog and the creator of HoN). Now we are done with the arguments and flaming around here, a'ight.... steam: fullauto_00

what the hell guys...I'm playing LoL since beta came and there wasn't any beta keys so I played it at the immediately, for Dota I'm waithing for more than a month now for shitty key....so don't tell me anything against LoL because these guys know what to do for the best of players around the world, not like someone who wants introducing a new game and fooling people around. Doesn't matter....dota before LoL or not before LoL, this game give me reasons why to stay on it....good idea to get money from geeks who wants everything through buying skins....why not. Truly is that Dota came 1st out, but why so complaining if there is other games similar....i played other games too like HoN and LOCO and so what...for 1st impression Dota 2 doesn't giving me right reasons to play it at the beginning. So if Valve will messing things that way to make people waiting for some little things, that it's better to stay on LoL, but I'm not now kind a LoL geek who every day playing only LoL, but in time that I take for playing I play games which I can.

Lol stolen idea ? not really i mean HoN had to make the change to survive and valve will need it also competing with 2 others its a logical move i mean whos gonna pay for dota 2 when there is already free hon and lol ... even though i would :p some may not though so that it why they have to :)

Ok go play blizzard all stars (BALLS) when it comes out it looks pretty good haha roshan fights for u after u kill him its a mess blizz dota should just give up now rather that taking a fall they need icefrog to have a good game just stick with wc3 blizz

Please do help meeeee~ I already installed my Dota 2 recently. The steam is working correctly but everytime I tried to play dota 2 and before the game starts my dota 2 closing. Whats the problem? I can't play or watch a game. It always closing :( (installed dota 2 and dota 2 test) Thanks for the help/reply! Sorry for the grammar LOL

download steam app log-in and download dota 2 or if you have a friend that already got steam app and dota2 app with it just copy and paste.... playe LoL, HOn, and Dota2, all i can say LOL shit. Hon got the fastest gameplay of the three, and dota2 man my 1st love got a make over and i love it!!!!

hey guys ... i just bought the early acces bundle but when i install it (dota 2 test the name of the game ) nothing happened .... can u help me ?? when i pres play the screen turns black and then it returns me to windows

AS TO ANYONE SAYS BLIZZARD IS THE BEST DEVELOPER THAN VALVE YOU GUYS ARE BLIND....BECAUSE BLIZZARD RUINS EVERY FRANCHISE THEY HAVE (EXCEPT STARCRAFT) BECAUSE THEY ARE MILKING US AND GIVE US SHITTY SERVICE AND VUNERABLE DATA BASES (THEY ALWAYS GOT HACKED)AND FOR THOSE SAYING VALVE USES DOTA 2 AS A CASH COW YOU ARE WRONG

for those saying DotA is made by Blizzard Ones again do some research first....DotA is a Warcraft III "mode"...The most popular version of DotA is DotA allstars made by Icefrog get your facts right first

to those who said LOL and HoN are better than dota? your all stupid. LOL and HoN just copied the format of DOTA. TO THE FANS OF LOL AND HoN, go fuck yourselves. go to school and stop taking the money of your parents and do something with your lives. MORONS

Judging on your lack of knowledge in the topic of 'spelling' you probably haven't even passed the 1st grade. Which then leads me to another conclution, you cant afford to pay for your own stuff, so now mommy and daddy have to buy your 'sorry excuse for a computer'

People buy 'piece of shit' macs because they want to. You dont see us complaining about you people. Oh and by the way, i play HoN, LOL and DoTA 1, on my mac and it doesnt 'lag like hell'.

If you have to ask, you probably cant even afford one. I have my own custom pc as well and i'm not taking any sides. But people like you get on my nerves. So why dont you Get off your lazy ass and get an education.

where is the key i have 2 click here so i can play dota now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can I have a key too? I really wanna play the game but i wait for a long time for the steam survey invite but no luck i guess. So if anyone have 1 and fells like giving it away it will make me really happy! My steam acc is : digitALTheStar

valve are as always idiots it should be launched asap with free downloading so i can play this game freely until i decide its shit and go back to playing guild wars 2 but we all know valve are noobs and want us to pay for A FREE GAME but then again im bored hence the post pce out nubs

dota2 sucked. looks horribly cartoonish. traxex, rylai and lina looks like dude in capes. It should be silent protagonist, little fragile anorexic sticks with tits and cleavage doing mass murders and wiping the forest floor with heros bowel and endangered deformed mutated forest creatures intestine; instead dota2 changed it all; into transgenders bondages that after each kill and death- will whine and moan. What's worse? All heros whine if someone is attacking them. And their whining rivals the french kid durex adverts.

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I've been playing DOTA2 for almost 2 years and I've been playing it more than 10 hours each day it's very nice game and full of intense during game play. It's far better than playing with HON and LOL, I can say DOTA2 simply the best....